The graffiti on Wood Street in Oakland may stand out, but look closely because the garbage from illegal dumping is now nowhere to be seen at the 24th Street corner. Fifty-one volunteers partnered with the Urban Compassion Project to help clean the area, and literally took “tons” of debris elsewhere.
“What we reported was that there were 21 tons, that’s what we were able to record,” Vincent-Ray Williams of the Urban Compassion Project said. “Beyond that, there was a boat and 37 diesel tires that we never got weighed.”…